My wife and I were discussing this last night. We concluded that we perceive the passage of time by how eventful it is. This is why our being together 2000-11 seems like a shorter period than 2011-22 did - the same 11 years, but the second started with our having our son.
And of course we had two years where essentially nothing happened. Which seemed like forever at the time, but seems brief in retrospect.
So to me now - lockdown seems like one long day where nothing changed. All a blur. I can’t differentiate whether I did something in 2020 or 2021. It’s so odd.
A good article.
One typo: 2003 vs 2020, you meant seventeen years later, rather than seven.
All of us have a muddled sense of passage of time due to the two years of lockdowns, and the years before blur together.
Thank you. Also things that happened 20 years ago now feel like they happened 5 years ago - slightly horrific to realise how fast time has flown.
My wife and I were discussing this last night. We concluded that we perceive the passage of time by how eventful it is. This is why our being together 2000-11 seems like a shorter period than 2011-22 did - the same 11 years, but the second started with our having our son.
And of course we had two years where essentially nothing happened. Which seemed like forever at the time, but seems brief in retrospect.
So to me now - lockdown seems like one long day where nothing changed. All a blur. I can’t differentiate whether I did something in 2020 or 2021. It’s so odd.